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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Elwyn Brooks White

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Elwyn Brooks White

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Elwyn Brooks White

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Elwyn Brooks White

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

Elwyn Brooks White

A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Elwyn Brooks White

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

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Quotes of the Hour

McCain fought in Vietnam – I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.
Vladimir Putin
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
B. B King
It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress – because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing – to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
Zac Brown
Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.
Kurt Cobain
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I.F. Stone

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